Dante Alighieri

This satirical and often surreal novel is set at a summer school designed simultaneously to improve the figure and the mind through diet and creative writing: the Better Body Through the Arts Course. The story...

This long poem in heroic couplets was inspired by some lines in Dante 's Purgatorio about a woman named Pia (pious) who was born in Siena and died as an offender of some...

The most highly-regarded piece in this collection is Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (whose title means that it has as many poems as a sonnet has of lines). CR 's preface to this sequence...

Gloria Fromm links The Tunnel with Dante 's Divine Comedy, because it is divided into thirty-three chapters (the number of Dante's cantos), and contains similar repeated phrases, such as the inner circle,the outer...

Gloria Fromm suggests that Interim, like The Tunnel, is influenced by Dante 's Divine Comedy. She observes, for instance, that the swaggering, disreputable Spanish Jew Mendizabal, a devilish but also comic character...

The Sheffield Register carried two poems (a sonnet and an ode) in September which welcome and praise this volume. The Critical Review, too, welcomed it warmly. It quoted in full the introductory sonnet addressed...

Like Dante before him, GB held various public offices in Florence and was sent to other cities on diplomatic business.

GB 's writings began with Filocolo, a retelling of the traditional Floris and Blanchefleur love-story written between 1338 and 1400. Other narratives were Ameto, a pastoral-allegorical novel, Teseida (which contains the story re-used...

Her next idea was an exhibition of Dante 's Infernal Regions.Hervieu painted the scenes, and the museum's own wax manipulator, Hiram Powers , created the figures.

GD 's work was cosmopolitan. In addition to writers from other European countries like Dante and Cervantes , he illustrated Milton and Coleridge , and did a series of engravings of London for a work...

JOH delivered a lecture entitled Dante and Botticelli before the RuskinSociety of Birmingham.

DLS is best-known as a pre-second-world-war detective novelist, particularly as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. But the financial success she enjoyed from these novels permitted her to turn to other genres...

In 1856, CR published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...

Although Frances had no quarrel with her step-mother, shortly after her father's remarriage she and her sister went to live with their brother at 27 Keppel Street, London, where he had obtained a clerkship...

Bruno's conversion from Catholicism to Pantheism is described in a sexual analogy: Night after night he would steal out, moved by the same thoughts, penetrated by the same rapture . . . The more ardently...